Harry Putnam wrote:
Shawn Walker <[email protected]> writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Setup:
OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86
[...]
Assembled 07 May 2009
When I start the pkg manager is takes a moment to refresh the
database. but then it does not show any installed pkgs with the
check mark. And if I check a pkg to install or whatever, the
`Install/Update' button stays greyed out, as does the `Remove'
button.
So it offers neither to install or remove anything.
pkg publisher shows:
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI
release111b (preferred) origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/
I've never heard of this particular issue before. Although, I'd note
that your publisher shouldn't be named release111b; it should be
opensolaris.org'.
I understood that naming option to be at the users discretion so used
it to remind me I'm on a released version.
It is at the moment, but it will no longer be in a future release.
Also, changing the publisher name after you've installed packages will
likely confuse the package management system as you've orphaned the
existing packages.
I'm a little nervous about proceeding with cmdline pkg commands, since
it seems something is wrong somewhere.
The cli tool will provide more informative output.
What's the output of 'pkg list' ?
A hefty list of 621 pkgs...
Let me say here that until just recently I've been using the
pkgmanager every once in a while when I decided I wanted something
else installed... and have had no serious problem to speak of.
One thing that struck me as odd about `pkg list' output is that it has the
term `dev' in parens like this:
SUNWxwopt (dev) 0.5.11-0.111 installed ----
SUNWxwplr (dev) 0.5.11-0.111 installed ----
SUNWxwplt (dev) 0.5.11-0.111 installed ----
SUNWxwpmn (dev) 0.5.11-0.111 installed ----
SUNWxwrtl (dev)
[...]
I may have done something like decided to move up to dev at some time
in the past and then changed my mind... I vaguely recall something
like that... but I never actually ran an update that way... and the
pkgs all have the [...]111 version on them.
Because that's the publisher you installed them from, or rather, that's
what its name was at the time. You might want to try changing the name
back to 'dev'.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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